Our Japan Connection

Our research group has a long tradition of collaboration with Japanese scientsts, with support from the Office of International Science and Engineering of the National Science Foundation and various Japanese funding agencies. The collaborations focused on the physics of strong fields [with H. Minakata (Tokyo Metropolitan University)], probes of quark deconfinement and quark-gluon plasma dynamics (with M. Asakawa (Osaka University) and C. Nonaka (Nagoya University)]. In 2006, B. Müller spent three months as a visiting professor at the Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics at Kyoto University, where he gave a series of lectures on the physics of relativistic heavy-ion collisions and the quark-gluon plasma.